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N0. 625,06l. Patented May l6, I899. G. ROBERTS.

SAFETY FASTENER FUR DRESSSHIELDS.

(Application filed Feb. 19, 1898.]

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r u N 0 Y s m a A W o H W i o T o H P o c s R c v E P s n n a N z u TUNITED STATES PA ENT OFFICE.

GRACE ROBERTS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SAFETY-FASTENER FOR DRESS-SHIELDS.

SPECIFICATION formingpart Of Letters Patent N0. 625,061, dated May 16,1899.

Application filed February 19, 1898. Serial No. 670,951. (ModeL) To allwhom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GRACE ROBERTS, of New York, (Brooklyn,) county ofKings, State of New York, have invented an Improvement in Dress-Shieldsand Fasteners 'lherefor, of which the following description, inconnection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, likeletters on the drawings representing like parts.

Dress-shields to be worn satisfactorily must be held smoothly inposition in the arm-scye of the dress, and that they may be put into andtaken out of a dress readily they must have suitable fastenings, andthese fastenings must be so made that they will not contact with theperson and so that they will hold and keep the dress-shield effectivelyin positionin the waist or other article in which they are worn. I haveaimed to and have produced fastenings for the purpose of uniting thedress-shield into a waist, and I have so applied the fastenings to theshields that they cannot contact with either the arms or body. I employtwo fastenings, one located at the lower edge of the dress-shield andthe other at the upper corners of the dress-shield. Herein I shalldescribe and claim the fastening for the lower edge of the dress-shield,the fastening for the corners of the dress-shield having been made thesubject-matter of an application, Serial No. 687,402, filed August 2,1898. The fastener located at the lower edge of the dress-shield iscomposed of two pieces of wire bent and adapted to cooperate together toform a safety-pin which cannot be detached in use on the shield. The twoparts of the safety-pin are and preferably will be united to the shieldby suitable rivets.

Figure 1 shows a dress-shield provided with my improved fastenings. Fig.2 shows the fastener fully opened. 'Fig. 3 shows the two parts of thesafety-pin brought together preparatory to fastening them. Fig. 4 showsthe safety-pin fully united. Fig. 5 shows the eye part of the safety-pinmuch enlarged and detached.

The dress-shield A is and may be of any usual or suitable material andshape. Preferably it will be composed of two thicknesses, the outer oneof cloth and the inner one of an india rubber or gutta-percha compound,

the two thicknesses being provided with a binding 13, or there may bealining superimposed on the rubber. For the lower edges of the shield,to attach it inside the sleeve and inside the waist, I have devised apeculiar safety-pin. This safety-pin is composed of two partsviz., a pinpart Ct, having a bend or crook at a, and an eye part composed of apiece of wire I), having an intermediate bend b and an open hook 5 Boththe pine and the wire I) of the hook have a loop at one end, shown asmade by bending the wire into circular form, as represented at 19 Fig.5, in connection with the eyepiece, into which will be inserted asuitable eyelet, as c or d, said eyelet serving to retain the pin a orthe eye I) in operative position on the shield.

Fig. 2 shows the safety-pin opened. To operate it properly, the point aof the pin will be thrust through a small bight or loop of the materialtowhich the pin is to be fastened, and the point end of the pin, beyondthe part thereof engaged by the bight of the material penetrated by thepin, will be made to enter the space 19 of the bend b of the pin, as inFig. 3, and then a part of said pin between the eyelet d and its endwill be laid into the open notch 19 of the eye, as in Fig. 4, which willserve to hold the pin in place. By bending the pin slightly downward, asat a, Fig. 2, the point of the pin when the two parts of the safety-pinare fully engaged, as in Fig. 4, will in case of any longitudinalmovement imparted to the pin enter the little space I) in the eyed end79 of the eye 6 and will meet the eyelet, so that the said eyeletconstitutes a shield for the point of the pin, preventing it fromentering the body in case of accident.

I have herein shown the grabs, at the corners of the dress-shield; butsaid grabs do not form a part of this invention, as they have been madethe subject-matter of another application, as hereinbefore referred to.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is-

1. A dress-shield fastening composed of an independent pin, and aneyepiece, the latter presenting at its free end an open hook orpin-rest, and between said hook or rest and the opposite end of saideyepiece a bend to overlap the pin and keep it in engagement with saidhook or rest, substantially as deto said pin, each of said parts beingadapted to be attached separately to the dress-shield, substantially asdescribed.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

GRACE ROBERTS.

Witnesses JAMES G. ROBERTS, L. H. VINCENT;

